[NBLUG/noise] Windows networking

[Dave Sisley]

William Tracy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having some headaches getting my parents' Winbl^H^Hdows boxen
> networked. I'm hoping that someone here could either point me at a
> good place to ask for help, or maybe actually help me. :-)
>
> I'm trying to get file sharing on a Windows XP machine and a Windows
> 98 machine. They're connected via a Linksys router w/ a built-in hub
> (and onboard DHCP!).
>
> The Windows XP machine is up on the network and can see itself under
> "Shared Files". The Windows 98 machine cannot see anything at all
> under "Network Neighborhood". I can connect from it to the router by
> typing in the router's IP address and access its browser-based config
> screens, so the network card *is* working.
>
> However, even when I follow Windows XP's advice to put the XP disk
> into the 98 machine and run the "Network Setup Wizard", it complains
> that it cannot find the network hardware.
>
> So ... now what?
>
> William
>
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William:

Here's a quick (and likely lame) guess:  don't you need to assign the 
computer(s) to a 'work group' or something?  My limited experience in 
looking for drives/directories on the network from Windoh's machines is 
that you find them grouped by workgroup, then listed under that by 
machine name.

HTH!

-dave.

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Dave Sisley
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